60 Minutes has learned Chinese company BGI Group, the largest biotech firm in the world, offered to build COVID labs in at least six states, and U.S. intelligence officials issued warnings not to share health data with BGI. See the story, Sunday on CBS.
The largest biotech firm in the world wasted no time in offering to build and run COVID testing labs in Washington, contacting its governor right after the first major COVID outbreak in the U.S. occurred there. The Chinese company, the BGI Group, made the same offer to at least five other states, including New York and California, 60 Minutes has learned.
This, along with other COVID testing offers by BGI, so worried Bill Evanina, then the country's top counterintelligence officer, that he authorized a rare public warning. "Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests" declared the notice. Evanina believes the Chinese are trying to collect Americans' DNA to win a race to control the world's biodata.
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WNU Editor: This blog has covered China's efforts to obtain DNA for the past years, including fears that the Chinese may be looking at developing bioweapons that target certain groups with unique genetic markers. Here is my most recent post on China's efforts to enlarge their DNA library .... China Wants Your DNA (November 30, 2020).
But the Chinese are not the only ones who are doing this. The Pentagon is doing the same thing .... Why Is The Pentagon Collecting Russian DNA? (November 21, 2017).
